Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthetic dimension of morality, that we use concepts like grace to characterise people who do their duty with ease and pleasure.
Frederick C. BeiserTo live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.
Frederick C. BeiserThere was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.
Frederick C. BeiserWhen Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.
Frederick C. Beiser